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population

/ˌpɒpjʊˈleɪʃən/

An illustration for population

noun

number of people who live in a country, area, etc.

  • “There's a population of bats that lives in the mine.”Tatoeba
  • “The project apparently has the support of the local population.”Tatoeba

Sentences from Tatoeba show real usage. A word can have several meanings, so a sentence may use another one.

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Source: New General Service List (Browne, Culligan & Phillips) (CC BY-SA 4.0); Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0); Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR)

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